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5 Citations
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18 August 2023

The relaxation spectra, from which other material functions used to describe mechanical properties of materials can be uniquely determined, are important for modeling the rheological properties of polymers used in chemistry, food technology, medicine...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,646 Views
32 Pages

26 August 2023

The relaxation time and frequency spectra are vital for constitutive models and for insight into the viscoelastic properties of polymers, since, from the spectra, other material functions used to describe rheological properties of various polymers ca...

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614 Views
16 Pages

10 September 2025

This study investigates the constitutive model and relaxation modulus master curve of composite modified double-base (CMDB) propellants through uniaxial constant-rate tensile tests and stress relaxation tests. The experimental observations demonstrat...

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20 Citations
5,091 Views
23 Pages

A Personalised Emotion-Based Model for Relaxation in Virtual Reality

  • Joris Heyse,
  • Maria Torres Vega,
  • Thomas De Jonge,
  • Femke De Backere and
  • Filip De Turck

3 September 2020

One of the most frequent health problems is stress. It has been linked to negative effects on employee well-being in many occupations, and it is considered responsible for many physical and psychological problems. Traditional in-person relaxation the...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,514 Views
13 Pages

12 February 2020

We propose a comprehensive mathematical model to study the dynamics of ionizing radiation induced Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) activation that consists of ATM activation through dual mechanisms: the initiative activation pathway triggered by t...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,173 Views
19 Pages

An Engineering Prediction Model for Stress Relaxation of Polymer Composites at Multiple Temperatures

  • Xiaochang Duan,
  • Hongwei Yuan,
  • Wei Tang,
  • Jingjing He and
  • Xuefei Guan

30 January 2022

This study develops an engineering prediction model for stress relaxation of polymer composites, allowing the prediction of stress relaxation behaviour under a constant strain, over a range of temperatures. The model is based on the basic assumption...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,105 Views
15 Pages

26 January 2023

Stress relaxation properties have a significant impact on the performance of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) geomembranes (GMBs) at the peripheral joints of the membrane faced rockfill dam (MFRD). This paper presents a fractional order viscoelastic model (F...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,203 Views
16 Pages

6 June 2022

The creep and stress relaxation behaviors of coal are common in coal mining. The unified constitutive model is suitable to describe and predict both the creep and relaxation evolution characteristics of rocks. The generalized Kelvin model is the core...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,755 Views
11 Pages

A Mechanical Model for Stress Relaxation of Polylactic Acid/Thermoplastic Polyurethane Blends

  • Yi-Sheng Jhao,
  • Hao Ouyang,
  • Chien-Chao Huang,
  • Fuqian Yang and
  • Sanboh Lee

Polylactic acid (PLA) is considered a promising biodegradable polymer alternative. Due to its high brittleness, composite materials made by melt blending thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) with PLA can enhance the toughness of PLA. To understand the fo...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,572 Views
37 Pages

27 March 2024

Considerable development has been observed in the area of applying fractional-order rheological models to describe the viscoelastic properties of miscellaneous materials in the last few decades together with the increasingly stronger adoption of frac...

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  • Open Access
2,002 Views
18 Pages

23 January 2021

A computational trajectory formation model based on the optimization principle, which introduces the forward inverse relaxation model (FIRM) as the hardware and algorithm, represents the features of human arm movements well. However, in this model, t...

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  • Open Access
277 Views
21 Pages

Triaxial suction-controlled relaxation tests were performed on unsaturated reticulated red clay from a highway cut slope to quantify the coupled influence of matric suction (50–200 kPa), net confining pressure (100–300 kPa), and axial str...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,834 Views
14 Pages

Calculation of the Relaxation Modulus in the Andrade Model by Using the Laplace Transform

  • Juan Luis González-Santander,
  • Giorgio Spada,
  • Francesco Mainardi and
  • Alexander Apelblat

In the framework of the theory of linear viscoelasticity, we derive an analytical expression of the relaxation modulus in the Andrade model Gαt for the case of rational parameter α=m/n∈(0,1) in terms of Mittag–Leffler functions...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,549 Views
30 Pages

Non-Linear Creep-Relaxation Constitutive Damage Model for Aging Concrete

  • Bernardo T. Terán-Torres,
  • Jamshid Mohammadi,
  • Sudhakar E. Nair,
  • José M. Mendoza-Rangel,
  • Ismael Flores-Vivian and
  • César A. Juárez-Alvarado

17 May 2024

A thermodynamic constitutive damage model for plain concrete, and other quasi-brittle aging materials, under creep relaxation is developed. The model accounts for the anisotropic damage induced through a second-order tensor damage variable. The aging...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,058 Views
14 Pages

Numerical Simulation for COVID-19 Model Using a Multidomain Spectral Relaxation Technique

  • Mohamed Adel,
  • Mohamed M. Khader,
  • Taghreed A. Assiri and
  • Wajdi Kallel

18 April 2023

The major objective of this work is to evaluate and study the model of coronavirus illness by providing an efficient numerical solution for this important model. The model under investigation is composed of five differential equations. In this study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,311 Views
15 Pages

Rapid Prediction of the Open-Circuit-Voltage of Lithium Ion Batteries Based on an Effective Voltage Relaxation Model

  • Jie Yang,
  • Chunyu Du,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Yunzhi Gao,
  • Xinqun Cheng,
  • Pengjian Zuo,
  • Yulin Ma,
  • Jiajun Wang,
  • Geping Yin and
  • Jingying Xie
  • + 1 author

9 December 2018

The open circuit voltage of lithium ion batteries in equilibrium state, as a vital thermodynamic characteristic parameter, is extensively studied for battery state estimation and management. However, the time-consuming relaxation process, usually for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,358 Views
18 Pages

A State of Health Estimation Method for Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on Voltage Relaxation Model

  • Qiaohua Fang,
  • Xuezhe Wei,
  • Tianyi Lu,
  • Haifeng Dai and
  • Jiangong Zhu

8 April 2019

The state of health estimation for lithium-ion battery is a key function of the battery management system. Unlike the traditional state of health estimation methods under dynamic conditions, the relaxation process is studied and utilized to estimate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,374 Views
20 Pages

19 April 2018

This paper presents the application of an economic model predictive control (MPC) for the operational management of water distribution networks (WDNs) with periodic operation and nonlinear constraint relaxation. In addition to minimizing operational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,286 Views
21 Pages

The effects of temperature and pre-strain levels on the stress relaxation behavior and corresponding microstructural evolutions of Ti-6Al-4V alloys have been investigated experimentally and numerically in this study. A series of tests (stress relaxat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,246 Views
21 Pages

Increased Oxidative and Nitrative Stress and Decreased Sex Steroid Relaxation in a Vitamin D-Deficient Hyperandrogenic Rodent Model—And a Validation of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Model

  • Réka Eszter Sziva,
  • Réka Kollarics,
  • Éva Pál,
  • Bálint Bányai,
  • Ágnes Korsós-Novák,
  • Zoltán Fontányi,
  • Péter Magyar,
  • Anita Süli,
  • György L. Nádasy and
  • Nándor Ács
  • + 3 authors

7 January 2025

Background/Objectives: Both hyperandrogenism (HA) and vitamin D deficiency (VDD) can separately lead to impaired vascular reactivity and ovulatory dysfunction in fertile females. The aim was to examine the early interactions of these states in a rat...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,124 Views
11 Pages

30 April 2022

In the past few decades, the predator–prey model has played an important role in the dynamic behavior of populations. Many scholars have studied the stability of the predator–prey system. Due to the complex influence of time delay on the...

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440 Views
52 Pages

21 September 2025

Viscoelastic relaxation time and frequency spectra are useful for describing, analyzing, comparing, and improving the mechanical properties of materials. The spectra are typically obtained using the stress or oscillatory shear measurements. Over the...

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  • Open Access
904 Views
18 Pages

Fractional Calculus as a Tool for Modeling Electrical Relaxation Phenomena in Polymers

  • Flor Y. Rentería-Baltiérrez,
  • Jesús G. Puente-Córdova,
  • Nasser Mohamed-Noriega and
  • Juan Luna-Martínez

20 June 2025

The dielectric relaxation behavior of polymeric materials is critical to their performance in electronic, insulating, and energy storage applications. This study presents an electrical fractional model (EFM) based on fractional calculus and the compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,561 Views
16 Pages

21 April 2021

A framework for the stochastic description of relaxation processes in flexible macromolecules including dissipative effects has been recently introduced, starting from an atomistic view, describing the joint relaxation of internal coordinates and glo...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,416 Views
19 Pages

We considered relaxation, creep, dissipation, and hysteresis resulting from a six-parameter fractional constitutive model and its particular cases. The storage modulus, loss modulus, and loss factor, as well as their characteristics based on the ther...

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661 Views
23 Pages

21 November 2025

Elastomeric materials exhibit complex time-dependent behaviour under mechanical loading, necessitating accurate constitutive models for industrial applications. This study investigates the hyperelastic and viscoelastic responses of two carbon black-f...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,701 Views
14 Pages

Ad Hoc Modeling of Rate-Dependent Adhesion in Indentation Relaxation Testing

  • Ivan I. Argatov,
  • Iakov A. Lyashenko and
  • Valentin L. Popov

8 August 2024

The phenomenon of rate-dependent adhesion has long been recognized as an intricate problem, and the so-far-developed physics and mechanics-based approaches resulted in analytical relations between the implicit form between the work of adhesion and th...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
494 Views
18 Pages

23 June 2025

Viscous properties play a major role in the time-dependent deformation behavior of polymers and have long been characterized using spring-dashpot models. However, such models face a bottleneck of having multiple sets of model parameter values that ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,039 Views
18 Pages

Stress Relaxation Aging Behavior and Constitutive Modelling of AA7150-T7751 under Different Temperatures, Initial Stress Levels and Pre-Strains

  • Yixian Cai,
  • Lihua Zhan,
  • Yongqian Xu,
  • Chunhui Liu,
  • Jianguang Wang,
  • Xing Zhao,
  • Lingzhi Xu,
  • Canyu Tong,
  • Gengquan Jin and
  • Qing Wang
  • + 2 authors

12 November 2019

Age forming is an advanced manufacture technology for forming large aluminum panels. Temperature, initial stress level and pre-strains have a great effect on the formability and performance. The stress relaxation aging behavior of AA7150-T7751 under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,257 Views
17 Pages

A triple polarization (TP) model is proposed based on the second-order RC hysteresis equivalent circuit model, in order to more precisely reflect the dynamic and static characteristics of a LiFePO4 (LFP) battery, considering the long relaxation time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,686 Views
11 Pages

Magnetorheological Elastomer Stress Relaxation Behaviour during Compression: Experiment and Modelling

  • Mateusz Kukla,
  • Łukasz Warguła,
  • Krzysztof Talaśka and
  • Dominik Wojtkowiak

27 October 2020

Materials characterized by magnetorheological properties are non-classic engineering materials. A significant increase in the interest of the scientific community about this group of materials could be observed over the recent years. The results of r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,600 Views
16 Pages

Dynamic Compressive Stress Relaxation Model of Tomato Fruit Based on Long Short-Term Memory Model

  • Mengfei Ru,
  • Qingchun Feng,
  • Na Sun,
  • Yajun Li,
  • Jiahui Sun,
  • Jianxun Li and
  • Chunjiang Zhao

9 July 2024

Tomatoes are prone to mechanical damage due to improper gripping forces during automated harvest and postharvest processes. To reduce this damage, a dynamic viscoelastic model based on long short-term memory (LSTM) is proposed to fit the dynamic comp...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,930 Views
17 Pages

A class of generalized fractional Zener-type viscoelastic models with general fractional derivatives is considered. Two integral representations are derived for the corresponding relaxation modulus. The first representation is established by applying...

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  • Open Access
1,201 Views
17 Pages

15 July 2024

Asphalt pavements are fundamental to modern transportation infrastructure, requiring elasticity, firmness, and longevity. However, traditional asphalt, based on bitumen, faces several limitations. To improve pavement performance, polymer resins are b...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,159 Views
18 Pages

18 May 2024

This paper analyzes the effect of crosslinking reactions on a thermoset polymer’s viscoelastic properties. In particular, a numerical model to predict the evolution of epoxy’s mechanical properties during the curing process is proposed an...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
12,634 Views
23 Pages

Equivalent circuit models (ECMs) are a widely used modeling approach for lithium-ion batteries in engineering applications. The RC elements, which display the dynamic loss processes of the cell, are usually parameterized by fitting the ECM to experim...

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  • Open Access
2,218 Views
20 Pages

10 November 2023

Steady-state one-dimensional flows of five-component air behind a normal shock wave are considered with a one-temperature model. A mathematical model is formulated to describe the relaxation of a five-component air mixture with a one-temperature non-...

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  • Open Access
3,053 Views
34 Pages

Developing Creep and Stress Relaxation Models to Assess the Service Life of an Additive Manufactured Industrial-Scale Recuperator Utilizing Inconel 625 and AISI 310S Materials

  • Christos Papalexis,
  • Dimitrios Rakopoulos,
  • Nikolaos Nikolopoulos,
  • Alessandro Della Rocca,
  • Guido Jochler,
  • Oriana Tassa,
  • Christos Kalligeros,
  • Panteleimon Tzouganakis and
  • Vasilios Spitas

18 November 2023

This work is focused on the development of creep and stress relaxation models on Inconel 625 and Stainless Steel 310 materials for additive manufacturing. At the end, the operational lifespan of an industrial-scale additive manufactured recuperator i...

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  • Open Access
1,151 Views
14 Pages

30 December 2024

Corneal biomechanical properties are closely related to the cornea’s physiological and pathological conditions, primarily determined by the stromal layer. However, little is known about the influence of corneal cell interaction on the viscoelas...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,532 Views
19 Pages

In electrified vehicle applications, understanding the battery characteristics is of great importance as it is the state-of-art principal energy source. The key battery parameters can be identified by one of the robust and nondestructive characteriza...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,850 Views
16 Pages

30 January 2023

This research was completed in the development of studies devoted to relations between the elastic modulus (MoE) and thermal expansivity (CTe) of different materials. This study, based on experimental data, confirmed the models of the relations betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,451 Views
36 Pages

Effects of Glass Transition and Structural Relaxation on Crystal Nucleation: Theoretical Description and Model Analysis

  • Jürn W. P. Schmelzer,
  • Timur V. Tropin,
  • Vladimir M. Fokin,
  • Alexander S. Abyzov and
  • Edgar D. Zanotto

29 September 2020

In the application of classical nucleation theory (CNT) and all other theoretical models of crystallization of liquids and glasses it is always assumed that nucleation proceeds only after the supercooled liquid or the glass have completed structural...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,050 Views
23 Pages

The application of the fractional calculus in the mathematical modelling of relaxation processes in complex heterogeneous media has attracted a considerable amount of interest lately. The reason for this is the successful implementation of fractional...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,395 Views
10 Pages

20 September 2024

In the framework of linear viscoelasticity, the authors have previously calculated a novel inverse Laplace transform involving the Mittag–Leffler function in order to calculate the relaxation modulus in the Andrade model. Here, we generalize th...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,232 Views
20 Pages

A Fractional Model of Complex Permittivity of Conductor Media with Relaxation: Theory vs. Experiments

  • Armando Ciancio,
  • Vincenzo Ciancio,
  • Alberto d’Onofrio and
  • Bruno Felice Filippo Flora

Moving from the study of plasmonic materials with relaxation, in this work we propose a fractional Abraham–Lorentz-like model of the complex permittivity of conductor media. This model extends the Ciancio–Kluitenberg, based on the Mazur&n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,445 Views
33 Pages

14 August 2024

The relaxation spectrum is a fundamental viscoelastic characteristic from which other material functions used to describe the rheological properties of polymers can be determined. The spectrum is recovered from relaxation stress or oscillatory shear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,666 Views
17 Pages

10 September 2022

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the solvability of the steady-state flow model for low-concentrated aqueous polymer solutions with a damping term in a bounded domain under the no-slip boundary condition. Mathematically, the model under c...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,951 Views
18 Pages

11 December 2019

The aim of the study was to examine the Peleg and Normand model to characterize the overall stress relaxation behavior of wheat kernel at varying load conditions. The relaxation experiments were made with the help of the universal testing machine, Zw...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,715 Views
14 Pages

27 April 2024

Viscoelastic materials are applied in several fields, and their relaxation characteristics are intricately related to the failure mechanism of sealing components and the generation of indentation rolling resistance in belt conveyors. Therefore, it is...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,632 Views
33 Pages

3 October 2024

Relaxation time and frequency spectra are not directly available by measurement. To determine them, an ill-posed inverse problem must be solved based on relaxation stress or oscillatory shear relaxation data. Therefore, the quality of spectra models...

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